Hi Gregor

many thanks, now it's working again :-)

and without  export LIBV4LCONTROL_FLAGS=32

i'm starting skype as usualy

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

Thank you

Beste regards

Martin

On Friday, August 05, 2011 18:32:37 Gregor Jasny wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I've uploaded v4l-utils 0.8.5-2. From the README.Debian file:
> 
>   Since v0.8.4 libv4l decodes JPEG and MJPEG picture formats via libjpeg
>   instead of using the its own tinyjpeg decoder. For cameras delivering
>   a non-standars stream this leads to non working or flickering video.
> 
>   An indication might be the following output on stderr:
>   "libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data"
> 
>   libv4l already takes care of some broken cameras by falling back to
>   the tinyjpeg decoder. To test if this might help with your camera,
>   please set the following environment variable before starting the
>   webcam application:
> 
>   export LIBV4LCONTROL_FLAGS=32
> 
> Could you please install it and check if this environment variable helps
> to get video in Skype, again? There are at least two other cameras with
> the same chipset as yours that were brought back to life.
> 
> Once you verified that it works I'll add your camera id to the internal
> library table so that the compatible decoder is selected automatically.
> 
> I could have added it with this upload too, but in your bug report you
> stated that the error vanishes if you install 0.8.4. All cams I tested
> were broken by this version, too. v0.8.3 was the last compatible version.
> 
> You can pick the binaries from
> http://incoming.debian.org/
> or
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/v4l-utils/
> 
> The packges.debian.org is often one day behind.
> 
> I appreciate your help!
> 
> Thanks,
> Gregor



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